The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina

OVERVIEW OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK OF 11 NOVEMBER TO 15 NOVEMBER 2024

15.11.2024. 13:26 Please see below an overview of the most important activities for the week between 11 November and 15 November 2024.        

MEETING BETWEEN CHIEF PROSECUTORS OF PROSECUTOR’S OFFICES OF BIH AND PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE FOR WAR CRIMES OF SERBIA

13.11.2024. 14:45 The meeting between the Chief Prosecutor of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milanko Kajganić, and the Acting Chief Public Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for War Crimes of the Republic of Serbia, Dušan Knežević, was held in Belgrade.  

OVERVIEW OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD 4 -8 NOVEMBER 2024

08.11.2024. 15:19  

INDICTMENT FILED FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN FOČA AREA*

08.11.2024. 09:06 The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against:  

PROPOSED PROHIBITION MEASURES FOR SUSPECT FIKRET PREVLJAK (1961)*

07.11.2024. 12:23 After interviewing the suspect, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina sent a motion to the Court of BiH to order prohibiting measures for the suspect, which, among other things, include the confiscation of documents, a travel ban, as well as a ban on contacting witnesses and suspects in the case and reporting three times a week to the relevant police department.  

MEETING OF CHIEF PROSECUTORS OF PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BIH AND SUPREME STATE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF MONTENEGRO

05.11.2024. 12:15 A working meeting of the delegations of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH and the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office of Montenegro was held at the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH. During it, an Agreement on understanding and cooperation in the field of support for witnesses, injured parties and victims was signed to allow their participation in criminal proceedings in war crimes cases.  

OVERVIEW OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK BETWEEN 28 OCTOBER AND 1 NOVEMBER 2024

01.11.2024. 13:55 Please see below an overview of the most important activities for the week between 28 October and 1 November 2024.      

PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF BIH RECEIVES FINAL AND BINDING JUDGMENT IN HIGH-LEVEL CORRUPTION CASE

31.10.2024. 11:40 The Prosecutor’s Office of BiH received a final second-instance verdict in the Selmo Cikotić case confirming the first-instance judgment and sentencing of the accused Cikotić to a three-year prison sentence.  

CUSTODY MOTION AGAINST FIVE PERSONS

31.10.2024. 10:33 In the high-level organised crime case Mladen Popović et al. (“Vertigo” operation), the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH submitted to the Court of BiH a motion to order five suspects into custody.  

IN HIGH-LEVEL ORGANISED CRIME CASE SEVERAL SUSPECTS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY

29.10.2024. 15:38 Acting on orders of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH, the police officers of the Administration for Organised and Serious Crime of the Republika Srpska Ministry of the Interior, in cooperation with the Prijedor Police Administration, deprived eight persons from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia of their liberty, because of the existence of grounds for suspicion that they were involved in criminal offences of international smuggling of various types of narcotic drugs in the respective territories of the countries of the region, as well as in several instances of smuggling of a large number of illegal migrants from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the Republic of Croatia and EU countries.